Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen

My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil. — J.P. Getty

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. — Robert Orben

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons. — Douglas Adams

I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse. — Clinton Jones

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly. — George Raft

October: This is one of the particularly dangerous months to invest in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. — Mark Twain

It is only by not paying ones bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. — Oscar Wilde

If God only gave me a clear sign, like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. — Woody Allen

Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die. — Max Asnas

It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. — WC Fields

I wish that dear Karl could have spent more time acquiring capital instead of merely writing about it. — Jenny Marx

There are three ways of losing money: racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. — Lord Amherst

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free. — Taylor Meade

One of the strange things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it. — Finley Peter Dunne

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less. — Brendon Francis

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. — J.P. Getty

Money isn’t everything, but it’s a long way ahead of what comes next. — Edmund Stockdale

Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially legal tender. — Kay Ingram

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. — Robert W. Sarnoff

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. — Michael Pritchard

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out. — Will Rogers

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. — Rebecca Johnson

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it — Henny Youngman

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? — John Barrymore

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience. — Harvey MacKay

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. — Johnny Carson

Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t. — Mignon McLaughlin

A lot of people become pessimists from financing optimists. — C.T. Jones

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. — John Barrymore

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. — Joe Louis

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. — Jean de la Bruyere

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains. — Robert Frost

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus

Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce

"Money" - Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey

"Money Money Money" by ABBA

"The Money Song" by Monty Python

"Money" by The Beatles

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" perfomed by Al Jolson

Late Show - Bernie Madoff Apology Request

Remember E.F. Hutton? I Guess We Now Know What The E.F. Stood For... Extortion and Fraud.

“An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits” -- John F. Kennedy

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. -- Friedrich August Hayek

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. -- Frederic BastiatThe "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector. -- Henry Hazlitt

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. -- Milton Friedman

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. -- Ludwig von Mises

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations. -- Adam Smith

There are 101,100, 000,000 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. -- Richard Feynman

What is called "orthodox" economics is in most countries barred from the universities and is virtually unknown to the leading statesmen, politicians, and writers. The blame for the unsatisfactory state of economic affairs can certainly not be placed upon a science which both rulers and masses despise and ignore. -- Ludwig von Mises, Human Action

, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. -- Thomas Jefferson

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person ever give you a job? -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey (1992)

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain

Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. -- John Adams

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. -- Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

When a government takes over a people's economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs. -- Maxwell Anderson

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. -- Frederic Bastiat

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. - Sam Ewing

I’ve never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I’ve never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument. -- John Howard

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Economic ignorance is the breeding ground of totalitarianism. -- John Jewkes, British Economist

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. --John F. Kennedy

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. -- Vladimir Lenin

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.” -- Anonymous

Then you’ll see this man or woman— someone, I always think, who looks very happy to be on TV. “Well, Charlie,” they say, “I’ve gone back and forth on the issues and whatnot, but I just can’t seem to make up my mind!” Some insist that there’s very little difference between candidate A and candidate B. Others claim that they’re with A on defense and health care but are leaning toward B when it comes to the economy. -- David Sedaris

“The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.” -- Paul Heyne

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. ” --- George Bernard Shaw

“President Bush said it’s now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.” -- Jay Leno

“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” --Frank Hubbard

“If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.” --George W. Bush

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” -- Woody Allen

“Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ” -- Author Unknown, because now we max out out card and then use the next credit card

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” -- Hannah Moore

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. -- Theodore Roosevelt

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AllSuretyBonds 6 years ago

Great Hub. This is a funny list. Enjoyed reading. Voted you up!

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St.James 8 years agofrom Lurking Around Florida

Thanks Moxie

Michael Fox 8 years ago

I've always loved that Woody Allen qoute, "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.&rdquo;

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St.James 8 years agofrom Lurking Around Florida

Pafipe thanks for the quote! Much appreciated.

pafipe 8 years ago

Maybe you'll like this one:

"Money's not everything... Neither is Oxygen"

Author Unknown

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St.James 8 years agofrom Lurking Around Florida

Thank you..I tired to make light of something serious

linjingjing 8 years ago

Quotes About Money and the Economy or Its a Mad Mad Madoff World After All

Good article

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St.James 8 years agofrom Lurking Around Florida

Thank you Tom, it was a fun request. I couldn't have missed doing quotes for such a topical time in the financial world.

Tom Rubenoff 8 years agofrom United States

Thank you for answering my request so completely and fully!

Kari Poulsen 9 years agofrom Ohio

I really enjoyed this! Did you see that you need to have a net worth of 1.3 billion to be on the Forbes 400 list? I find it incomprehensible...how much is 1.3 billion? Do we really need a dollar for almost every star in the galaxy?

Brian Stephens 9 years agofrom Castelnaudary, France

Didn't have time to read them all but I did read some great ones. One I loved and didn't see was 'I want my last ever cheque to bounce'. Sorry can't remember the author but loved the sentiment, you have probably got it in here anyway.

mulberry1 9 years ago

Really enjoyed reading through these quotes!

moonlake 9 years agofrom America

Great hub really enjoyed it. Thanks for becoming my fan.

foxility 9 years ago

That was fantastic.

Tom Cornett 9 years agofrom Ohio

Tons of smiles, Thanks!

Catherina Severin 9 years agofrom Arizona, U.S.A.

Bookmarked right away... great collection of quotes &amp; videos on money... thanks xx